IMPD: Fight ensues after bar bathroom incident

A fight at the Tilted Kilt bar in Downtown Indianapolis over the weekend started when a patron urinated in a sink, police said.

Officers responded just after midnight Saturday to a disturbance at the bar, located at 141 S. Meridian St., according to an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department report.

A 48-year-old Avon man admitted to IMPD Officer Teresa Pritchett that he urinated in a sink in the bar’s restroom, but the man said he initially thought the sink was a urinal.

Another bar patron found the sink-peeing upsetting, police said, and reported the incident to the Tilted Kilt’s staff. Two bouncers then asked the Avon man to leave the premises.

What happened next remains in dispute. The Avon man told police he was peacefully complying with the bouncers’ request when one of them pushed him from behind, starting the fight. Another staff member punched him in his ear, the Avon man said.

Bar employees, however, described the Avon man as uncooperative. He yelled at employees and other patrons, they said, and squared up to one of the bouncers as if wanting to fight.

The report does not indicate anyone was arrested. The Avon man wanted to be sure police made a report of the incident, police said, because he believed he was treated unfairly. He also said his iPhone 5 was cracked during the scuffle.